| Description |
x, 397 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Approaches to semiotics ; 114 |
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Approaches to semiotics ; 114
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| Contents |
"That prerogative over human": Paradise Lost and the telling of divine history / Thomas N. Corns -- The beginnings of the epistolary novel in England / Laura Visconti -- Not being an historian: Women telling tales in restoration and eighteenth-century England / Jane Spencer -- "Worn by the friction of time": Oral tradition and the generation of the balladic narrative mode / Thomas Pettitt |
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The Book of Jonah: A paradigm of the "hermeneutics of strangeness" / Hans Robert Jauss -- Homer's portrayal of women: A discussion of Homeric narrative from an oralist point of view / Minna Skafte Jensen -- Orality, literacy, and the "readership" of the early Greek novel / Tomas Hagg -- Memory, fictionality, and the issue of authority: Author-function and narrative performance in Beowulf, Chretien and Malory / Robert Weimann -- The marvellous North and authorial presence in the Icelandic fornaldarsaga / Vesteinn Olason -- Women and Old Norse narrative / Else Mundal -- Repainting the lion: Chaucer's profeminist narratives / Alastair Minnis -- The mimesis of change: Gascoigne's Adventures of Master F.J. (1573) / Roy Eriksen -- Archetextual palimpsests: Compositional structure and narrative self-awareness in L'Astree and other French baroque novels / Hans Erik Aarset -- Pragmatism and narratology: The case of Paradise Lost / Gordon Campbell |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-372) and indexes |
| Subject |
European literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Eriksen, Roy, 1948-
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| LC no. |
94002663 |
| ISBN |
3110138832 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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